Wednesday, September 6, 2017

February 11th, 1959

I found some brass candlesticks in my attic that were carefully wrapped in an old STL newspaper dated February 11th, 1959. Thankfully it wasn't the sports section-- it was all sadly forgotten funnies and even a few movie / TV ads! So here ya go, some of the silly comic highlights, (a particularly nice bite of Jack Kirby and Wally Wood's Sky Masters too) and a couple of local ads. Man, I'd love to see The Spider, aka Earth vs. the Spider, with Brain Eaters at the drive-in! (Scanned at 300%)

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I like that spaghetti lady! I also like the idea of chipping-in on the carload price for the triple feature down at the ol' drive-in. I feel less enthusiastic about the uncut adult probing I'd get at the Apollo.

I remember Mr. Mum with its hard angular drawing. In the daily panels he just witnessed the gag with very mild surprise (in contrast to the strange dread of bystanders in Addams cartoons). Sundays usually ended with him going to a "Health Bar" for a strong non-alcoholic drink to recover from whatever he saw.

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(aka Steve Banes) Editor / co-editor of IDW's Chilling Archives of Horror Comic Books: ZOMBIES, RETURN OF THE ZOMBIES, DEVIL TALES, and MUMMIES, as well as co-host of the bi-monthly HAUNTED HORROR comic series and HAUNTED LOVE miniseries. (All image scans and photography by me from items found in my own personal collection-- except where noted.)